Is Love Enough?

Marriage is a tough thing. I got married when I was nineteen and extremely idealistic. I fell hard in love with my first college boyfriend and, after a year and a half of dating, married him. We were mormons and believed that the next step after love was marriage (just like the nursery rhyme). I’ll never forget my Dad’s reaction after learning of our engagement…”Can’t you just live together first?” I think about that now, 15 years later, and wonder how it would have turned out if we had just done that. I would have found out many things that would have been valuable…but woulda, shoulda, coulda are not possible. Now after 14-plus years of marriage I just don’t know if love is enough. I know love is what the main substance is, that is what allows my husband to stay with me after watching me throw up, smelling my morning breath, picking at various skin things, and so on. But when the passion leaves, when there is nothing but all that other stuff that we endure about each other, is that enough? Just a question.

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